Venkata Anirudh Puligandla was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, India in 1992. He received B.Tech degree in electronics and communications engineering from Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India in 2014 and B.Sc. degree in computer vision and robotics from University of Burgundy, France in 2016. He received M.Sc. degree in computer vision and robotics from University of Burgundy, France, University of Girona, Spain and Heriot Watt university, Scotland in 2018 as part of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree program. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science, in April 2024, from the Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia under a Marie-Curie Actions ITN fellowship from 2019. After working at dSPACE d.o.o., as an Application Engineer, for over one year, from October, 2024, he is employed at the Ruder Boskovic Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow, as part of the SPOTLIGHT project. His research interests include linear, non-linear and inverse programming, 3D reconstruction, machine learning and artificial intelligence, global optimization, and computer vision.
